Invitation to MAPnificient at BRAC

Hello Everyone 

I hope that you can join us to experience MAPnificent, a group exhibition curated by Yulia Tikhonovaopening at The Bronx River Art Center, BRAC, Friday 11/22 6-9pm

in addition on

• Wednesday December 4th, 6-8pm I will begin part one of my participatory performance/installation, gathering stories for "Knitting...I Need You",  coinciding with Bronx Culture Trolley Night.              

• Friday December 20th, 6-9pm  The Performance of "Knitting...I Need You", presented as part of BRAC celebration of MAPnificent's closing with an End-of-Year Party that includes around the globe spinning by Bronx DJ Lightbolt 
• You might see me in the neighborhood between opening night and closing night as I will conduct informal knitting lesson and story telling at the gallery, in the neighborhood as well as the nearby Public Library. 
• For more details please visit Bronx River Art Center

Looking forward to see you

Best wishes, Marie Christine

    
  

This knitting session took part during Brooklyn Utopias in preparation for a Let's Take a Walk performance. Brooklyn Utopias In TRANSITion is still on view. Please visit this blog for details.

What's my worth?

I am delighted to be part of Valerie Kuehne curated 3 Acts Performances at L'Ange Noir in Bushwick.

"Each week will feature one sound artist, one performance artist, and one songwriter, working within their respective communities to push the boundaries defined by their “genre” and therefore potentially creating something new entirely. I can only hope that this will lead to some FASCINATING future collaborations."

Valerie Kuehne

Spread the WORD! 
all shows begin at 8pm and end by 11pm, a $10 donation for the performers will be collected.

Ange Noire is located at 247 Varet st. Brooklyn, NY
if traveling by Subway take the L to Morgan ave.

On Thursday November 7th  

performance artist Marie Christine Katz presents “What’s My Worth?” 

Mara Mayer (bass clarinet) and Jason Anastasoff (upright bass) are Feral Children,

songwriter Steve Espinola

My Thanks to Ruth Pfaneuf and Kenny Fedorko  

Knitting...I need you

Knitting Lessons & Performnce 

Saturday, October 12, 10am-6pm,  FREE
As part of Open House New York weekend, OSH is hosting the second annual Kings County Fiber Festival. Katz will be present at the festival to teach basic knitting techniques and collect stories about experiences of walking in the city. Throughout the day she will retell the stories given by participants via short, seemingly impromptu, performances, while the knitted elements are unraveled.
To View images of Katz’s Brooklyn Utopias: In TRANSITion opening night go to “Let’s Take a Walk” performance 

LTAW#32 9/17th at 6.30pm (EST)

Let's take a walk #32 will take place on the opening night of "Brooklyn Utopias, in TRANSITion" 

September 17th at 6.30pm (EST)

at The Old Stone House & Washington Park, 5th avenue between 3rd and 4th street, Park Slope, Brooklyn. 

Let's take a walk: Using the phenomenon of Twitter to organize “group walks" You can be part of the walk from anywhere in the world, please follow me on Twitter or join us at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, 

Looking forward to share this walk with you, for additional details please see below

Best wishes 

Marie Christine

"Brooklyn Utopia, in TRANSITion" is curated by Katherine Gressel  

You will be lead by The Cast

The Guide                   Marie Christine Katz    
The Town Crier            Antonia Lassar           

The Drummer             Jason Rabinowitz             

The Tweet Master       Artem Yatsunov           

In TRANSITion addresses critical issues relating to public transportation in Brooklyn and beyond.  Participating artists are tackling issues like transit fare hikes, traffic congestion, the presence of “transportation deserts” in underserved neighborhoods, and the adaptation of transit to a city of rising sea levels.  

For information about the exhibit please see Brooklyn Utopia

 

El Paper, De_Tour

Hello everyone 

I am please to have my work, a photograph titled "Rendez Vous"  included in this group show.

If you happen to be in town please join us. If you have missed yesterdays events you can still

see the work today.

eL Paper Magazine is pleased to invite you to its special activities during The DE-Tour show at Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn. Following the concept of drifting, as proposed by Situationist thinker and writer Guy Debord, (e)L Paper Magazine invited artists, writers, architects, and photographers to undertake their own detours (alone, or in groups of two or three), leaving behind routines and daily obligations. Remnants of this experiences have been displayed in the magazine and will be shown in the exhibition.

Saturday, August 17th 4,30 PM. The De-Tour Sketch Walk. Led by, Richard Alomar, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, this walk invites the participant to become a De Tourist while exploring South Slope, Brooklyn. The objective, using Situationist methodology, is to walk and wander. We will explore and document this section of Brooklyn with words, sketches, photos and found objects. The activity will last 3 hours and is free of charge. Please RSVP if you want to attend:elpapermagazine@gmail.com 7,30 PM Opening of the DE-Tour exhibition show and magazine release. Artworks by Alyssa Casey, Iliana García, Itzy Ramírez, James Prez, Janna Dyk/Meaghan Ritchey/Cein Watson, José María Ibañez, Kentaro Fujioka, Macarena Jofré & Danilo Osorio, Marie Christine Katz, Matti Havens & Billy Friebele, Miguel Luciano, Priscilla Stadler, Susan Rippberger. Reception to follow with:  "Drifting through Concrete", performance by Susan Rippberger.  And a monologue reading by Jason Wachtelhausen. Sunday, August 18th  2 to 7PM, bookbinding workshop. We will be doing books all the evening 3:30 to 5:00 PM Workshop: How to Do an I-Ching Reading  We welcome you to join us for a glimpse into the journey of how to use this text for guidance through life’s detours, contours and every other kind of tour. The workshop will cover: basic background, trigrams, hexagrams, generating your question, how to “throw” the I-Ching, and doing actual readings.  The teachers, Priscilla Stadler, Artist, and Gary Richmond, Philosopher, use the I-Ching as a tool for creative investigation. For more info contact priscillastudio@gmail.com . All the activities are free and open to the community and will take place at  Open Source  306 17th street, Brooklyn, NY 11215  Gallery hours during the weekend: 12 to 8PM